The normal activity of 300 million citizens of any industrialized country is sure to produce a vast source of power and wealth.  Human greed being what it is, countless people will lie, cheat, steal, murder  — do anything to gain control of any part of that power/wealth.
“Human Greed,” not “money” (as the saying goes) is  the root of all evil. But, although Human Greed, like fire, left to itself, is extremely dangerous, when  properly controlled, it is also one of the greatest sources of good for humankind.  So it must be controlled by our government  — people we can vote for or against — not remote industrial leaders who are out of our reach therefore out of our influence.

The government of 300 million people is never going to be small. Therefore, any chatter about need for “small” or “smaller” government is usually a clear waste of time and evasion of the problem.  What’s obviously needed is better, more just and honest government!

We’ve developed what I call a royalty complex — a system or custom of pretending that when people reach some level in politics, sports, arts, entertainment, etc, we must make some special effort in court to understand, excuse, forgive this time, or other such rationalization. The result is we lose the intent of the phrase, “liberty and justice for all.”So we get professional politicians who do anything they need to to line their own pockets, knowing that their own brother professional politicians will, with impunity,  help them out of any trouble to protect their own positions. Their work is the most important in the world, therefore, penalties for any transgressions should match that level of importance.

The professional politician develops as Joe Cornpone won a city council seat in Podunk, then joined The Party, then won Cob County commission seat, then State Somethingorother, etc, etc, always, climbing the political party ladder and becoming more loyal to party than to his voters.

I am advocating that, in our next couple of elections we all vote out any and all incumbents and that we make it loud and clear that we are doing so because their overall performance was so bad! Sure, it won’t be fair but neither was what was done by whoever did it. Since they won’t or can’t explain it, we fire them and start over with new people and the clear message that we expect much better.

RAY LASHLEY
Grand Junction

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